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Reference Number EP/N034570/1
Title RHYTHM: Resilient Hybrid Technology for High-Value Microgrids
Status Completed
Energy Categories Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electric power conversion) 10%;
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Electricity transmission and distribution) 80%;
Other Power and Storage Technologies(Energy storage) 10%;
Research Types Basic and strategic applied research 100%
Science and Technology Fields ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY (Electrical and Electronic Engineering) 100%
UKERC Cross Cutting Characterisation Not Cross-cutting 100%
Principal Investigator Professor T Green
No email address given
Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering
Imperial College London
Award Type Standard
Funding Source EPSRC
Start Date 01 July 2016
End Date 31 March 2019
Duration 33 months
Total Grant Value £985,244
Industrial Sectors Energy
Region London
Programme Energy : Energy
 
Investigators Principal Investigator Professor T Green , Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London (99.997%)
  Other Investigator Dr D (David ) Howey , Engineering Science, University of Oxford (0.001%)
Prof D J ( ) Rogers , Engineering Science, University of Oxford (0.001%)
Dr A Junyent-Ferre , Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, Imperial College London (0.001%)
  Industrial Collaborator Project Contact , Ove Arup & Partners Ltd (0.000%)
Project Contact , IMV Corporation, Japan (0.000%)
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Objectives
Abstract Microgrids for uninterruptable power supply systems (UPS) have been used in high-value service provider buildings for many years. Despite they use conventional network topologies with relatively conventional control and protection systems, the use of low voltage DC to supply information technologies (IT) loads is rapidly becoming standard. In these systems, DC is is seen as an opportunity to improve reliability and to reduce energy losses and costs. Today the market of photovoltaics, batteries, power electronics and IT hardware keeps growing as these technologies become more cost-competitive. Thus, the use of DC could be extended to further types of loads, generation and storage giving rise to hybrid AC-DC microgrids. When considering the current business-as-usual approach to electrical network design, planning and operation, the growth of renewables and power electronics is often seen as a threat to electrical networks. However, by exploiting the controllability of power electronics it would be possible to build highly-reliable, energy-efficient and cost-effective networks with low carbon impact. High-value buildings today present interesting opportunities to test new concepts of microgrids that could be used at a larger scale in the future. However, multiple technical questions still remain unanswered, such as: "how much can microgrid design be optimised while preserving high reliability?" or "how does low level control for transient stability affect battery life span and how can it be improved?" to name a few. This project seeks to answer these questions by bringing together world leading expertise on microgrids, network planning, energy storage, power converter design and power electronic control from the UK and Korea. The project will consider hybrid AC-DC microgrids with loads, generation and energy storage connected in either side. It will focus on applications to high-value service provider buildings with the ambition of generating knowledge that will be useful in other applications and at greater distribution network scale
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